Whew

Well, as it turns out, my professor is not a dickhead. I was pretty upset on Friday after the exam and I had written a big email to my prof about the exam, but I deleted it and decided that I would talk to him today after class.

But the first thing the professor said when class began was, “I’m sorry that the TA was late for the exam. I cannot mark this exam as a 50 minute exam, that would not be fair. I will be marking this exam as a 40 minute exam, I can’t expect long answers on an exam where the TA was late. If you expanded on an answer but shorted another answer, I will take that into account as well, depending on how well the additional information was written.

Secondly, when I mark an exam and nobody got a key point that I commented on, then that is my fault. I will mark accordingly. But if one person got it, then I covered it, and it’s your fault.”

I think that this is definitely fair. I’m happy with the outcome thus far.


I spoke to my prof after class and explained to him how I botched the first question and his reply was if it is apparent what I did, he will mark the question accordingly. I feel a lot better about this exam now. It’s too bad that I couldn’t find out about this on Friday, because I wouldn’t have felt as bad for the weekend.